What a loaded word! Ask 15 different people what success means to them, and I would guess you’ll hear 15 different answers. I suppose that’s the beauty of it all, in a world as diverse as ours, we continue to build opportunities to learn about each other.
The purpose of this post is for you to take a couple of minutes, and hopefully a few more over the next day or two, to consider YOUR definition of success.
I was gifted a book by a client some time ago, “Managing for Results,” written by one of my heroes and mentors (unbeknownst to him!): Peter Drucker.
If you can create a window of about 30 minutes, drop by the bookstore and scan this book (if you have followed this blog you know that I share very specific tools and strategies for people to speed-read, increase comprehension of what they read, and actually implement the ideas they get from experts into their actual and every-day life).
mmm. . .
"Success" is knowing that you are 'making a difference. '
Making a difference by teaching people to manage what they do with time so they can focus on what you call "MITs" - Most Important Things.
Making a difference by having college students deliver Thanksgiving baskets and teaching them to be philanthropic.
Making a difference by earning millions of dollars, and giving it to worthy foundations/charities to help them make a difference.
Making a difference by training non-profit leaders to be better at what they which means inspiring them, and giving them the encouragement they need to keep making a difference.
Hope this makes at least a little sense (and maybe a difference)? :-)
Posted by: Christopher Scott | August 21, 2007 at 10:16 PM
Oh, and the whole "to gift" thing might be off (whether "gift" is a noun or a verb is still being debated somewhere, I suppose!).
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gift#Verb
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=gift
Posted by: Jason W. Womack, MEd, MA | August 20, 2007 at 03:59 PM